Looking back 10 years when the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA) started, enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance. Microsystems in many cases provided the key functions for this progress. Although the issues the event concentrated on didn't change significantly (safety, powertrain, comfort, etc.), considerable shifts of technological paradigms and approaches can be stated.

The future of microsystems will consist of integrated smart systems which are able to diagnose a situation, to describe and to qualify it. They will be able to identify and mutually address each other. They will be predictive and therefore they will be able to decide and help to decide. Smart systems will enable the automobile to interact with the environment, they will perform multiple tasks and assist a variety of activities. Smart systems will be highly reliable, often networked and energy autonomous.

There is a coincidence of the AMAA objectives and those of EPoSS, the European Technology Platform on Smart Systems Integration, contributing intensively to the development of automotive-specific smart systems. You will find a series of the EPoSS items in the programme of the 10th AMAA, which continues to be a unique exchange forum for companies in the automotive value chain.

The publication in hand also reflects these issues. It is a cut-out of new technological priorities in the area of microsystems-based smart devices and opens up a mid-term perspective of future smart systems applications in automobiles.

Additional information is available on www.amaa.de

Microsystems are an important factor that contribute to an automobile model's success and reliability Microsystems and their underlying technologies are in many cases even the driving forces in order to satisfy new customers' requirements The state-of-art of microsystems in automotive applications is represented in this book

Inhalt
Market.- Prospects for MST Sensors in Automotive Applications.- Future Architecture for Inertial Sensors in Cars.- Safety.- Three-Dimensional CMOS Image Sensor for Pedestrian Protection and Collision Mitigation.- EVENT-ONLINE A Service Concept for large scale Events based on FCD Technology.- Advanced Pressure Sensors with high Flexibility for Side Crash Detection.- Detection of Road Users in Fused Sensor Data Streams for Collision Mitigation.- Dynamic Pass Prediction A New Driver Assistance System for Superior and Safe Overtaking.- Requirement Engineering for Active Safety Pedestrian Protection Systems based on Accident Research.- Biologically Inspired Multi-Sensor Fusion for Adaptive Camera Stabilization in Driver-Assistance Systems.- Low Speed Collision Avoidance System.- Laserscanner for Multiple Applications in Passenger Cars and Trucks.- A new Approach for Obstacle Detection Based on Dynamic Vehicle Behaviour.- Far Infrared Detection Algorithms for Vulnerable Road Users Protection.- iBolt Technology A Weight Sensing System for Advanced Passenger Safety.- Object Classification exploiting High Level Maps of Intersections.- Performance of a Time-of-Flight Range Camera for Intelligent Vehicle Safety Applications.- Powertrain.- Coordinated Cylinder Pressure Based Control for Reducing Diesel Emissions Dispersion.- A High Temperature Floating Gate MOSFET Driver for on the Engine Injector Control.- Comfort and HMI.- Distributed Pressure Sensor Based on Electroactive Materials for Automotive Application.- Intelligent Infrared Comfort Sensors for the Automotive Environment.- Gesture Recognition Using Novel Efficient and Robust 3D Image Processing.- Network of Excellence HUMANIST - Human Centred Design for Information Society Technologies INRETS & ERT.-Networked Vehicle.- High Speed 1Gbit/s Video Transmission with Fiber Optic Technology.- Components and Generic Sensor Technologies.- Integrated Giant Magneto Resistors a new Sensor Technology for Automotive Applications.- Simulating Microsystems in the Context of an Automotive Drive Application.- Miniaturized Wireless Sensors for Automotive Applications.- 3D-MID Multifunctional Packages for Sensors in Automotive Applications.- PReVENT.- Towards the Automotive HMI of the Future: Mid-Term Results of the AIDE Project.- Accidentology as a Basis for Requirements and System Architecture of Preventive Safety Applications.- ADAS Horizon How Digital Maps can contribute to Road Safety.- Intersection Safety the EC Project INTERSAFE.- ProFusion2 towards a Modular, Robust and Reliable Fusion Architecture for Automotive Environment Perception.- Integrating Lateral and Longitudinal Active and Preventive Safety Functions.- Lane Detection for a Situation Adaptive Lane keeping Support System, the SAFELANE System.